Tasty breakfast to set us off for the day. We took a group picture with 刘小姐 and thanked her for her hospitality. 潘导 then sent us to Hualian Railway station. Off to Luodong we go!
Luodong seemed pretty backwards. Dull buildings and rice paddy fields. A very quiet town. The owner of 糖果屋 was there to pick us up. He wasn't as friendly as 潘导. Being a young man, probably in his early thirties, he said we could call him as "黄大哥". :S But he was nice enough to make two trips to fetch us to 糖果屋 and sent us to Luodong Railway station the next day. We negotiated for him to drive us to three locations in Luodong for a fee of NT$2500. It's for the convenience. Taking taxi would cost about the same, but the bad thing is we had to call taxi everytime we want. It's not a flag-and-take taxi system in Luodong.
Firstly, we went to 三星蔥博物館, which 黄大哥 hasn't even heard of. We wanted to take our lunch at 田妈妈葱蒜美食馆. But it is only opened from 11 am to 2 pm and 5 pm to 9 pm! Sigh, so we didn't get to eat all the spring onion dishes. =( We could only tour the mini museum that had many spring onions food products.
I bought the spring onion ice-cream, NT$20, which we were so excited about. New taste mah... one spoon of it, and I didn't eat it again. Haha, Cheryl quite liked it though! Click here for food link of Spring Onion museum.
We finally got a piece of 洋葱饼 from a push-cart outside the museum to satisfy our cravings. It was quite good despite it being oily.
Next up was our visit to 国立傅统艺术中心. It's like a place where they imitated the old buildings and shops of olden Taiwan. There, you can find some handicrafts and hand-made stuff, which I thought was pretty. And you won't be able to find them elsewhere in Taiwan.
Finally, it was dinner time. 黄大哥 took us to our third location - 羅東夜市. I mentioned above that Luodong was a quiet place. But here, at Luodong night market, it was bustling with people, food and... RAIN! The food was pretty good here. We started out with deep-fried maize with flavour coatings. Yummy! The rain was a bit irritating, otherwise the experience would have been better! Click for food link.
Done for the day!! REST REST REST!
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